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...Planes. The Army's standard equipment is the mobile X-ray unit, of which the Medical Corps has more than 3,000 (cost: $2,380 each). The outfit, consisting of an X-ray machine, a generator, a tent darkroom and a table for patients, is carried in three Army trunks and takes six minutes to assemble in the field. As no calipers are used, an injured man need not be moved while he is on the table. In most cases the X-ray man merely spots the foreign body by fluoroscopy and gives the surgeon a report...
...crash landing instead of bailing out, not primarily to save the plane but to help save his skin. The plane will help guide searching parties, provide shelter, fuel for warmth and smoke signals, materials to make sun helmets and knives. Other handy equipment in planes: a parachute for a tent, a converted seat cushion for a sun helmet, a parachute pack as a knapsack...
...night Rangers are often summoned from their tents and Niesen huts, sent off through the eternal rain on compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...onetime tent-show clown, bullfighter, prize fighter, Cantinflas at 31 is vice president of one of Mexico's leading film-producing companies (Posa). His films outdraw Hollywood's in Mexico. Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest clown, has pronounced Cantinflas the "world's greatest clown...
...Tent Shows and Temples. In Oakland young Grauman saw a cowboy revivalist vainly holding forth in a tent. Sighed the cowboy: "They don't want the Lord." Said Grauman: "I want the tent." He set it up in the middle of San Francisco as Grauman's National Theater, using church pews for seats, and did so well that he finally built a corrugated-iron edifice around it "and never even lost a matinee in the process." Soon he was operating other theaters...